The selectors deserves some credit as well. According to Naeem, 2 months ago Akram told him to play at no.4 position in NCL. So this shows they were thinking of him of Naeem specifically at number 4 after he did well with WI HP and DPL.

I have been meanIng to say this for a while. I agree that they might be bad selectors but please don't insult their playing careers. Akram might have been a pretty bad batsman but Nannu was pretty good and they didn't have the facilities of today to back them up. So was Bashar, he might have been a bad batsman in ODIs but he was certainly one of the most consistent in tests. He scored a fifty in almost every innings. Players like Bulbul, Athar, Nannu, Bashar,Pilot( was considered to be one of the best keepers in international cricket) were definitely more consistent than Alok, Aftab and Ashraful and they worked on their game without the help of any fancy coaches or equipments at their disposals.

Originally Posted by M.H.Rubel
Yes we are one bowler short in this test. If we can take sunny in the 11 then bowling will be balanced but the problem is we ll have to play with one batsman short. I am sure it will cost us. 8 batsman mode is a defensive mode no doubt but i did not find any alternative option to strengthen this fragile batting line up.

We scored 500+ without JS and SN..and.still you think we need to remain in defensive mode? Can't we easily take out one of them and add one more bowler? Another specialist bowler can contribute much more towards attack to win matches. That also increases the balance of the team.

Originally Posted by Fazal
Chumma chumma ... dui gale dui chumma for selecting Shohag and Naeem and keeping Nasir and trusting on Ryiad.

Now next game if some how you can add Sunny and Anamul/Mominul, then more chumma is waiting for you.

Just take out Nafees and Zunaid, get in Enamul/Sunny and Anamul - you are set to beat the best squad in Bangladesh cricket history.

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Originally Posted by BANFAN
We scored 500+ without JS and SN..and.still you think we need to remain in defensive mode? Can't we easily take out one of them and add one more bowler? Another specialist bowler can contribute much more towards attack to win matches. That also increases the balance of the team.

The selectors' doesn't understand that these new generations tigers are very different than theirs!

Take out the likes of Zunaid weeds, have two specialist spinners for all the time in tests (as our pacers are not that effective in Test), you would see much better results. Being defensive will take us nowhere.

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Originally Posted by mufi_02
I think Rubel bhai meant unchanged squad of 15. Anamul wasn't part of that 15. So JS might get dropped and be replaced by any of the 3 in the bench (Nazim/Abul/Sunny).

I hope Mufi is right!

If Zunaid and Nafees does well while we are batting tomorrow, I will still take out one of them and replaced with Sunny. And replace Shahadat with Abul - let's see how he does?

Abul can't do worse than Shahadat!!

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I sometimes dont understand the hate towards Shahadat... For ODI's he is not the answer but for Test he is the best and the most successful pace bowler we ever had... his stats still sucks but he is the best we got. Performed better than mash when the two played together.

Originally Posted by HereWeGo
I sometimes dont understand the hate towards Shahadat... For ODI's he is not the answer but for Test he is the best and the most successful pace bowler we ever had... his stats still sucks but he is the best we got. Performed better than mash when the two played together.

Show a little gratitude people! They delivered a 500+ run test innings and took us to the brink of a memorable test victory against a mighty West Indian side led by a Best pacer on a pace friendly minefield. Sure, having Nazza!, Rocky, ShuVo, Mehrab "Junior" and The Abul in the starting lineup would've been ideal, but the world ain't perfect, is it now?

Dead weight like Shakib, Tamim and Mushfiq have friends in high places and it ain't easy doing the right thing under those circumstances.

One must focus on the Akherat to stay sober from the allures of the Duniya.

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